Artist: Hooters
Video: From YouTube.
This restaurant has the best chicken wings. Oh, not that "Hooters"? My mistake....
These Hooters are a rock band from Philadelphia, and they achieved their first mainstream success in 1985. Founding member Eric Bazilian wrote the Grammy nominated hit "One Of Us", most famously sung by Joan Osborne.
"And We Danced" just missed the top 20 in the U.S., peaking at #21 in the Billboard Hot 100. Only one Hooters song achieved greater chart success: "Day By Day", also from the "Nervous Night" album, reached #18.
I wasn't a fan of this song in 1985. I'm not sure why, but now I realize I totally missed the boat. Listening to it again today, "And We Danced" is thoroughly enjoyable. It's a catchy, up-tempo rocker about a magical evening of romance. "She was a bebop baby on a hard day's night"...good stuff. I would love to know what that wind instrument is with the keyboard attachment in the opening notes.
The video includes live footage of the band performing at a Pennsylvania drive-in. We also see the crowd's antics in the concession stands and parking lot. I found a really interesting story on the making of this video and I was going to link to it, but now the site is not accessible. Too bad. I can't be posting no broken links.
